Run a risk check on an AI-assisted workflow before rollout
Builds a risk register for an AI workflow covering accuracy, data privacy, bias, security, compliance, and over-reliance, with controls.
The prompt
Run a risk check on a workflow where we use, or plan to use, AI.
The workflow: [STEPS, and where AI is involved]
AI tools and how they are accessed: [e.g. company-approved assistant, public chatbot, automation tool]
Data involved: [e.g. customer data, employee data, financials, contracts, code]
Who sees or acts on the output: [internal team, customers, regulators, public]
Our AI policy or rules: [PASTE, or "none yet"]
Industry or regulations that apply: [DETAILS]
Check for these risk types:
- Accuracy - hallucinated facts, wrong numbers, outdated information.
- Data privacy and confidentiality - personal or sensitive data in prompts, retention, sharing.
- Security - access permissions, prompt injection from emails or documents, connected tools taking actions.
- Bias and fairness - outputs that affect people differently.
- Compliance and legal - regulations, IP and copyright, disclosure obligations.
- Over-reliance - skipped reviews, lost skills, no fallback if the tool fails.
- Reputation - tone or errors reaching customers or the public.
Return:
1. A risk register table: Risk | Where in the workflow | Likelihood (H/M/L) | Impact (H/M/L) | Existing control | Recommended control | Owner.
2. The 3 risks to address before rollout.
3. Required human review points.
4. What to monitor after launch, and what would trigger pausing the workflow.
Don't overstate legal conclusions; mark items to [CONFIRM WITH LEGAL / COMPLIANCE / IT SECURITY].
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- STEPS, and where AI is involved
- internal team, customers, regulators, public
- PASTE, or "none yet"
- DETAILS
- CONFIRM WITH LEGAL / COMPLIANCE / IT SECURITY
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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